Astrology for Wednesday, 9 October 2019:

The Moon ingresses into Pisces and directly into a superior trine from Venus in Scorpio. Whatever pressures, struggles, or vulnerabilities we are feeling in our relationships, this aspect reconnects us to the expansive healing waters of compassion and empathy. Remember, the feelings that are being drawn up from your depths did not begin in these relationships or situations. They are old patterns, long-hidden struggles, the parts of ourselves that we’ve withheld because we believed we had to in order to be loved. Today is a reminder to send love and care backwards to your younger self who hid because they didn’t know another way or who repressed what may have been too big or too painful to integrate. Send love and care backwards to your caretakers or parents who were doing the best they could with their own resources however limited, as they carried their own hidden wounds and traumas. And if it feels possible, send love and care backwards to those who hurt you, because as Mariame Kaba has said, referencing the work of Danielle Sered, “No one enters violence the first time by committing it.” As the Moon moves into a sextile to Uranus, we may feel ourselves in revolutionary terrain. Stay open to what revolutionary compassion might break open or break through for you.